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E-government: (Electronic-GOVERNMENT) A generic term for Web-based services from agencies of local, state and federal governments. Such Web sites provide a wide variety of services to the public and...; Full E-government Definition >>

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Laying the foundations for evolving eGovernment: Why next generation Ethernet technology holds the key: The UK Government has committed to transform the public sector by making truly e-enabled delivery of public services a reality.This whitepaper demonstrates with real-life examples of successful projects how next generation Ethernet technology is providing the robust communications infrastructure needed for transformational eGovernment.; Tags: NTL Inc., UK Government, E-government, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking, Government; White papers 2008-04-15
North Karelia Region Implements Flexible and Transparent eGovernment Services for Citizens: North Karelia and the City of Joensuu wanted to provide flexible and cost efficient services that enable modern, interactive and role based web services for the citizens and civil servants of the entire region and increase productivity within the public sector. The challenge was to cover a large geographical area...; Tags: Oracle Corp., E-government, Web Services, Strategy, Government, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; Case studies 2008-02-01
Korean Government Extends Range of and Improves Efficiency of Online Public Services: In 2003, the president of South Korea expressed his firm resolve to innovate the public sector. The firm resolve of the government gave birth to the E-Government Roadmap, designed to achieve Korea's vision of becoming the "World's best open e-government". An open e-government involves the participation of the nation's people...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Resolve, E-government, Government; Case studies 2008-02-01
e-government and E-Health Security Standards: E-Government and E-Health systems are undisputedly on the rise. Various nations and healthcare providers have done first steps and undergone experiments in that field. Certainly, E-Health and E-Government are going to change the way how citizens and public administration, or patients and healthcare providers interact. However, with their rising popularity,...; Tags: University Of Fribourg, E-government, E-health, Government, Healthcare; White papers 2007-12-02
Portugal Creates Interoperability Framework to Simplify Citizen/Government Interaction: The Portuguese government is working to make Portugal one of the world's leading information societies. The Agency for the Modernization of the Public Administration AMA is chartered with leading digital initiatives across Portuguese society, including introducing e-government services. The agency worked with Microsoft, Accenture, and Siemens IT Solutions and Services...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Framework, Portugal, E-government, Government, Vertical Industries, Advertising & Promotion, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing; Case studies 2007-10-09

Egypt Establishes e-government Infrastructure: With roughly 76 million citizens, the Arab Republic of Egypt is one of the most populated countries in Africa. The services once offered by the Egyptian government were largely manual, which made completing routine procedures difficult and time consuming for everyone involved. The country needed a faster, more efficient service...; Tags: Citizen, Microsoft Corp., Egypt, E-government, Government; Case studies 2007-08-01
Place Matters: Geographically Enabling Government: Identifying and extending commonality across the enterprise IT investment portfolio is the road to the Promised Land for today's information technology executives. At all levels of government, significant investment is being made to further implement Service-Oriented Architecture SOA as a framework for establishing application independence from information technology while maintaining...; Tags: Stratus Technologies, Information Technology, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), E-government, Government, Strategy, Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software, Management; White papers 2007-07-24
Blogs and the flu: eGovernment in action: Blogs and the flu: eGovernment in actionContact good but not deepUntil the Hurricane director Bill Proenza was fired for commenting on a problem(http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/07/national-hurric.html) did I realize what a chance Dr. Leavitt and Admiral Agwunobi took. I was naive in thinking I could talk to those working for me...; Tags: Blogging, e-government, H5N1, blog, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Discussion threads 2007-07-10
Blogs and the flu: eGovernment in action: Last week, Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, penned the final post on the Pandemic Flu Leadership Blog PFL blog--a blog sponsored by HHS. The blog consisted of over 100 posts from contributors in the healthcare, faith-based, business and community sectors. The blog is a great...; Tags: Blogging, Government; Blog posts 2007-07-09
Microsoft Technology Enables Online Unified Identity Verification Services for 3 Million Citizens and Residents of Kuwait: The Kuwait Authority for Civil Information PACI required a Web-based authentication gateway to verify the identity of citizens online. It is to be used by both public sector organizations including banks and telecommunications providers through a simple browser interface. e-Pin is a web service developed for PACI by MCS. This...; Tags: Web, Microsoft Corp., Kuwait, e-Pin, E-government, Channel Management, Microsoft Development Tools, Web Services, Security, Government, Marketing, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-06-08
Moscow City Government Replaces Hundreds of Systems With Single Environment: Moscow City Government is responsible for delivering universal services to a population of 10.4 million - including police, community safety, education, healthcare, and social services. Accordingly, the government decided to modernise its Novell-based technology with a new standardised operating system to create the foundation for new applications and services. In...; Tags: Moscow, Environment, Microsoft Corp., Moscow City Government, Government, E-government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-06-01
San Francisco CIO: Chris Vein: CIO Chris Vein shares his plan to upgrade e-government and bridge the digital divide with new computers and free Internet access. The interview took place during the CIO Impacts Forum held at UCLA Engineering. by ZDNet Editor; Tags: CIO, E-government, Productivity, Government, ZDNet Editor; Blog posts 2007-03-20
Czech Portal Handles 10 Million Online Forms and Frees Officials From Paper Systems: The Ministry of Informatics in the Czech Republic wanted to create a single solution for individuals and organisations to conduct online transactions with government ministries and public-sector agencies. It also decided to create a clearly defined interoperability standard for local software developers to write their own applications for direct communication...; Tags: Ministry, Microsoft Corp., Czech Republic, E-government, Portals, Government, Internet; Case studies 2007-02-01
W3C European symposium focuses on e-gov: Next month the World Wide Web Consortium will host a European symposium for e-government. The meeting in Spain will address issues that e-governments around the world are confronted with - privacy, security, and better government/citizen interaction. Federal Computer Week reports that the consortium wants to understand how...; Tags: Government technology, E-government, International, W3C; Blog posts 2007-01-17
Building good eGovernment applications: Last week I ran across this article on how Federal Websites are losing momentum in the American Customer Satisfaction Index ACSI. Sites that score high tend to be transactional sign up for something or about a single program (like the Medicare Prescriptions Drug Benefit...; Tags: e-government; Blog posts 2006-09-28
Newham Delivers Better Citizen-Centric Services With Connected Government Framework: The London Borough of Newham is one of the U.K.'s top performing local authorities. It delivers highly accessible, citizen-centric services using information and communications technology ICT. Newham realised that the deployment of a robust, innovative infrastructure would be key to meeting the U.K. Government's transformation agenda for regional and local...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Connected Corp., Newham, E-government, Government; Case studies 2006-08-22
Supporting the Community to Deliver Enhanced Services: Kyotango City wanted to deploy a solution that allows for real-time, collaborative communication between the previously separated cities and which delivers sophisticated information and improved community services for its 66,000 citizens. Nortel and UNIADEX a business partner of Kyotango City recommended that the City deploy an optical network, which is...; Tags: Nortel Networks Corp., Ethernet, E-government, Networking, Network Technology, Fiber Optics, Government, Telecommunications; Case studies 2006-08-09
Emerging eGovernment mashups: Emerging eGovernment mashupse-campaignsPhil, thanks for this post. Web services and mashups within government is the key infrastructure necessary for transparency, and its great to see some of the things you called for happening.At USF, we're working on a project to make SF campaign information transparent, and the big next step...; Tags: USF, Phil, e-government; Discussion threads 2006-07-20
Senate: No e-gov funding: Funding for the Bush Administration's e-government initiatives are all but dead, as the Senate Appropriations Committee recommended zeroing out the program, Federal Computer Week reports. A committee report on a funding bill for the State, Justice, Commerce and other agencies said the e-government programs are vague and assertions of cost-savings...; Tags: agency, e-government; Blog posts 2006-07-19
Emerging eGovernment mashups: When I was Utah's CIO, I wrote what I called the Web Services Manifesto to create a list of principles that I though all government agencies should follow whenever they created an online resource. Their goal: set the data free. The idea is that government...; Tags: government; Blog posts 2006-07-13